Our digital offering

We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming Nottingham Digital Summit. We'll be exhibiting on the day, offering an insight into Nottingham Trent Universities digital offer, and how we help businesses innovate within their field. Be sure to drop by our stand to meet our knowledgeable staff and learn about how we can work with you.

NTU are committed to strengthening our partnerships with commercial organisations, and work with you to connect our aspirations and ambitions for NTU with your future business demands.

We're partner of choice for over 6,000 organisations within the private, public and third sector. These partners cover a wide cross section of sectors and industries, and include Aecom, Rolls-Royce, Experian, Santander, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Nottingham Police.

Discover more ways to benefit your business

Talent

NTU offers employers access to over 8,000 skilled, work-ready students and graduates each year. This fresh talent provides businesses with extra resource, as well as the latest skills and knowledge helping to bring a new perspective to your company.

Skill

Your staff are your most valuable asset. By investing in their skills, you can improve productivity and innovative thinking within your business. We provide a number of solutions for digital skill development, including;

Degree Apprenticeships

Designed by industry, for industry, degree apprenticeships provide employers with a cost-effective training solution to address the growing need for a modernised workforce. Whether it be through hiring new team members, or upskilling existing staff, a degree apprenticeship can help employers improve staff retention, whilst providing employees with a clear career progression.

Professional courses

Our professional courses help keep your workforce current, relevant and up-to-date with the latest skills and knowledge. We offer a number of solutions to companies, including short courses, bespoke short courses, accredited courses and in-company degrees.

Specialist expertise across a variety of sector and verticals to develop solutions to problems

Testing, analysis and interpretation work, using our state of the art facilities and equipment

Consultancy on collaborative and contract research projects

Assistance with establishing a presence in a new market, rebranding and developing your marketing strategy.

We also offer businesses looking for expertise and technology to implement innovative ideas within their company the opportunity to benefit from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). KTPs provide funding support to help businesses collaborate with universities, and a framework to ensure that new knowledge and technology gained from the project is embedded into the organisation.

Enabling Innovation

The Enabling Innovation programme is aimed at SMEs in the D2N2 area and provides support to help them develop new products and services through access to university expertise in research and innovation.

Our Innovation Hubs help SMEs by providing expertise and services to support new ideas and innovation.

Materials and engineering innovation

The Materials and Engineering Innovation hub delivers expert workshops and academic knowledge exchange projects. It will provide you and your business with expertise across multiple disciplines.

Through Enabling Innovation, SMEs can access a broad base of knowledge and equipment, giving you access to industrial imaging, materials analysis and process automation.

Materials and Engineering Innovation services include:

nuclear magnetic resonance

materials imaging and sensing

surface modification and analysis

computational materials physics and modelling

laser processing of materials

thin film deposition

materials and devices exploiting interfacial sciences

electrospinning

For more information contact Thomas Sanders via email, or on +44 848 3944.

Big House

Supported by the European Regional Development Fund, The Big House programme at Nottingham Trent University provides free support to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire-based creative and digital businesses.

From developing potential business ideas and nurturing start-ups, to working with established businesses aiming for growth, our partner network provides specialist support. Access grants, one-to-one mentoring, networking events and tailored workshops, to help build the contacts, skills and knowledge you'll need to succeed.

Interested in our offer? Get in touch at bighouse@ntu.ac.uk or call 0115 848 4297 to find out more.